Chapter 136

Yuki reminds Geto of a talk they shared eleven years ago, when both wished for a world without cursed spirits. She holds that humanity's next leap means breaking away from cursed energy, while Pseudo-Geto counters that it lies in optimizing it. Yuki picks apart his plan: enhancement through Tengen only reaches the people of Japan, and a national monopoly on cursed energy would provoke other world powers into chaos far from the future they once imagined. Geto laughs and admits his aim was never hers at all, seeing sorcerers, ordinary people, and curses alike as forms of cursed energy and believing human potential runs deeper still.

Having already extracted Mahito's innate technique, he prepares to use it. Yuji reveals that Geto absorbed the soul-manipulating curse, to Yuki's dismay. Geto presses his palm to the ground, etching a vast seal that triggers a cursed technique from afar.

Geto explains he has cast Idle Transfiguration on two groups he previously marked: people made to ingest cursed objects as potential vessels, like Yuji with Sukuna, and people whose brains were built to be non-sorcerers, like Junpei. He reshaped both so they can wield jujutsu, intending them to wake and fight one another to deepen humanity's grasp of cursed energy, a plan he likens to releasing a thousand evil Yujis. Tsumiki Fushiguro, one of the marked, finally stirs in her hospital bed. The frozen sorcerers suddenly thaw, poisoned by Choso's blood from the earlier Piercing Blood strike. Declaring the future will mirror the Heian era, Pseudo-Geto summons curses, shows Yuji the Prison Realm, and vanishes into the darkness asking whether Sukuna is listening.

The chapter falls under the Shibuya Incident Arc and was collected in Volume 16, first published in 2021 and adapted in Episode 47. Tsumiki Fushiguro debuts here. Toji Zenin and Sukuna are mentioned, Miguel appears in fantasy, and Mahito features in flashback. Akutami's note offers the excuse of needing the holidays to reset.